This is an analysis of Rubaiyat 27 by Shams al-Din Hafiz Shirazi.
The morning breeze tended to the rose,
A maid-in-waiting, as the flower grows.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXa
- Stanza lengths: 4,
- Metre: 010110001 0101010101 00011101010 1010011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 4
